Cancer Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

I think the way we talk about cancer has really evolved. I remember the way my grandmother used to talk about it, like a…

— Laura Linney

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind…

— Abraham Verghese

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century…

— Chuck Klosterman

It's a shame that cancer has been something that's been accepted in society as something that's always gonna be there.

— Kendall Schmidt

People tend to panic at the mention of the word cancer, but I wasn't upset or frightened when the doctor told me.

— Princess Michael of Kent

We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it.

— David Andrew Sinclair

If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

In the 1960s and '70s, there wasn't much evidence at all. We knew vaguely the causes of cancer, but methods like genomics were very…

— Harold E. Varmus

I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.

— Marcia Wallace

I remember when I was a child, the word cancer absolutely struck fear into everyones hearts. It was like a death sentence.

— Davina McCall

I know what cancer was. How is it like humankind?" Sek Hardeen's perfectly modulated, softly accented tones showed a hint of agitation. "We have…

— Dan Simmons

Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better…

— Harold E. Varmus